hypercolossal
English
Etymology
Adjective
hypercolossal (comparative more hypercolossal, superlative most hypercolossal)
- (rare) Extraordinarily colossal; supercolossal.
- 1942, Escanaba Daily Press, From Sin to Wholeness[1], Associated Press Leased Wire News Service, page 4:
- Hollywood --Some time late this year --perhaps, appropriately, on Dec. 7- Walt Disney is going to unwind the most stupendous, hypercolossal aviation picture ever made.
- 1982, Edward Estlin Cummings, Selected Letters of E. E. Cummings[2], Deutsch, →ISBN, page 216:
- enfin: please believe that Patchin's Master & Mistress most deeply appreciate Your & Alice's greatly generous offer of assistance in the finding of a Nortonian de luxe hypercolossal mansion.
- 1996, Barry Ahearn, Ezra Pound, Edward Estlin Cummings, Pound/Cummings: The Correspondence of Ezra Pound and E.E. Cummings[3], University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 91:
- Bikus quite impractically everyone both of us ever knew has gone to most hypercolossal not to say superprodigious trouble re we.
- 2014 October 20, Megan Mcardle, “They Say You Should Break This Grammar Rule”, in www.bloomberg.com[4], archived from the original on 16 February 2021:
- The attempted abolition of singular "they" was a hypercolossal blunder by 18th- and 19th-century fusspots who thought grammar should follow the same sort of simple rules as a steam engine, that Latin and Greek grammars were a good model for English diction, and that in public-facing activity, men absorbed the women in their circle like a sort of social sponge.